A resource that they’re not willing to spend?
It would be a nightmare for them if they did. They have a lot of fires to put out before they start anything new (outside of their already semi completed titles OW2 and D4).
Apart from everything else and whilst WoW does feel like it needs a reboot there is the big issue of investment.
Hours and dollars have been put in by many people over many years. What happens to all the toys, mounts, transmogs they have accumulated over the years?
Sure they might make a better game, but are people going to want to give up everything they have worked for for it? Not super likely.
Seeing how they completely abandoned bfa and justify themselves with “we’re focusing on shadowlands”,
I paid for BfA.
But oh well, indie company amirite
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Honestly I was surprised they even announced D4 or OW2. It has not been a good couple of years for Blizz. They’ve been taking hits left and right just about every month.
Remember, you are talking about the New Blizzard. At least 2 years and counting for Diablo Immortal, a mobile game.
So it would be safer to to err on the higher side of the 5-10 year range for New Blizz to develop a brand new mmo.
For sure they have the resource to do better, but they just not willing to spend it on their products, laying off workers, outsourcing work to some third world country that never produced anything remarkable in that field.
I mean SC remastered is amazing but it’s nowhere near the advertised version of WC3 reforged.
There’s still enough people addicted to this wow to keep it afloat, why make a new one when they are profiting off this still. the main problem players have when they can’t stand the game as is they still won’t quit. and i know alot of you are like me addicted. hell there is many people on the forums that are addicted to them to can only laugh at ourselves.
This is my ultimate idea for the future of WoW: Add “Riftwalker” NPCs that allow us to phase to another expansion, and start progression on that same character anew under the rules of the expansion at that time.
So WoW^2 would be retail WoW with “riftwalker” npcs that allow me to go back to classic as a level 1 troll(no blood elves in classic) rogue named hardlybad with no bags, no bank slots, no inventory, no gold from retail, nothing from retail at all. WoW^3 would allow me to talk to the same npc and go to BC starting as level 58 blood elf rogue hardlybad. Then u can guess what WoW^4 would be, and we could have all the way up to the previous expansion eventually.
Just a matter of programming it so that my character Hardlybad can progress on every expansion separately but still be the same character on the same account with the same login screen. That’s what they should do, and continue to make new expansions too. They really have to nip this problem of dividing the playerbase at the bud before it gets out of hand though. There are many ways to solve it, this is but one elegant solution imo. It’s really lacking in foresight to divide the playerbase up in a 15 year old game.
I didn’t say make a “reboot of WoW.” I mean the TOPIC says THEY SHOULD STOP MAKING WOWS.
I mean it’s time for a totally new MMO. Something that doesn’t feel like a chore to play. Time to reinvent the genre, as in stop trying to imitate WOW and make something new and exciting.
I’d rather play Streets of Compton than see a vulperit running around in WOW.
Nobody cares.
Good thing you don’t speak for everyone.
I speak for the trees…
Why do you want the Actionvision-Brizzard to stop making the WoWS? Who will make this new MMO? Actionvish-Brish?
How will making the WoWs splode make the new MMO form, Octonoozle?
Donny Kawano pulls the knife out of his skull.
So, Octonoozle, about my offer. My basement? You watch I, Donny Kawano, train to be #1?
Donny Kawano once more holds out his hand for Octonoozle.
This seems to happen often, but the new game with fresh ideas ends up getting scrapped while they “pour all their resources into the current one” (apparently they weren’t already – sounds like PR speak) It happened twice with Ultima Online, then you had EverQuest Next… Blizzard’s Titan was to be a super ambitious, next gen MMO with all these great ideas, but that was canned also.
Likely what happens – and this is just a guess – is they run out of these “cool and exciting new ideas”, just as they have in the current game. Or it doesn’t end up as cool and fun as they thought it would on paper. Thus bringing them back to phase 1.
Do you pay attention to Acti-Blizz financials/ investor calls? WoW is a major driver of revenue for them. And if you think about it this way, even though the total game pop is down drastically from years ago, it still remains like 1 or 2 depending on the year (whether an xpac was released or not) in terms of profitability.
I don’t think we are going to run out of patches any time soon. Considering SL is like late 2020 maybe, we’ll have new WoW updates until at least the end of 2022.
I think they should keep cranking them out as long as people keep showing up to the table. I thought they’ve done a pretty good job keeping the game interesting.
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“Blizzard is out of ideas so they should make something new!” O.o?
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Quite the paradox.
Blizzard went down that road once and ended up crashing in a ditch they tried to create an entirely new and different MMO yet in the end they just created a new game from it
Overwatch was merely phoenixed from the dead ashes of an MMO Blizzard had originally planned to create called “Project Titan” they even said it was going to be an entirely new IP that had zero connection or reference to WoW it was going to be a “next generation” MMO that would knock the gaming world on its ear and take them by storm
then months later it was canceled and all mention of it stopped until OW was launched